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As the story opens on May 1, 1908, he is preparing for a handcuffed jump from Harvard Bridge, chafing at badgering reporters and a flock of imitators who are stealing his tricks. Houdini is an insecure man obsessed with fame, but also a faithful and devoted husband. But the authors intimate larger, at times darker themes (true love, arrogance, anti-Semitism) lurking around the outer edges. A single stunt from the sprawling career of the 'handcuff king,' Harry Houdini ('The man for whom the phrase 'kids, don't try this at home' might well have been invented,' reads Glen David Gold's introduction), is the lynchpin of this brief, elegant book.

The handcuff king